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• That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse
  it has no power to harm, without or within....
• Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 5...
• Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 18...
• For a man can lose neither the past nor the future
  for how can one take from him that which is not his?...
• Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live
  death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good....
• Remember that man's life lies all within this present, as 't were but a hair's-breadth of time
  as for the rest, the past is gone, the future yet unseen....
• Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 5...
• Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 4...
• Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 31...